Robinson on "The Line"
Blue Yeti ·
Feb 5, 2011 at 10:44am
Peter was on Fox News last night and gave some fascinating details on how a certain line was created and stayed in one of the most famous presidential speeches in history.
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Jul '10
Re: Robinson on "The Line"
I cannot even begin to imagine the stirring in Peter's breast when he witnessed Ronald Reagan deliver those words.
Peter, thank you for that. And for everything you've done for this nation.
May '10
Re: Robinson on "The Line"
"The right thing to do" A concept lost on many that believe that this great nation owes a debt of contrition for being great, and that being, free, powerful, and ready to aid others in the quest for freedom, is no longer honorable.
Jul '10
Re: Robinson on "The Line"
That's a ongoing conversation I'd be happy to re-visit.
But not on this thread. This thread is about honoring two fine Americans.
Sep '10
Re: Robinson on "The Line"
Still the greatest piece of political statesmanship I've ever seen and, yes, I still get chills too. And I'm glad he wrote that and didn't use a Robert Frost poem.
Peter - few of us in life get the opportunity to hit that Grand Slam home run; please know that we are forever grateful for it.
Jul '10
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Your the Real Deal Mr. Robinson. Thank you and may God continue you to bless you and your family.
Re: Robinson on "The Line"
Fabulous interview, Peter. Just think of all the young people out there, relatively unfamiliar with the Gipper's unique amalgam of conservative principle, good-humored optimism and steely resolve, who just learned something critically important. "The right thing to do." Yeah!
Jul '10
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What wouldn't I give to have witnessed a dust-up between Peter and Colin Powell?
Peter was blessed to have a boss like Ronald Reagan. Many lesser men would have thrown him under the bus.
Edited on Feb 5, 2011 at 11:44amNov '10
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Thank you so much for this post. I had missed the interview and the FoxNews website is cumbersome at best.
Indeed, two fine Americans. After all this time, the chills have never waned. I suppose they never will.
May '10
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"Fundamentally, Ronald Reagan was great because he was right."
Perfectly stated, Peter.
Nov '10
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The quality of Fox News about quadruples when Peter goes on there.
Sep '10
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It was a great interview! I think it's particularly wonderful how your ear picked up the gist of the moment as you were doing research, and how the president rode along with you. ... I'm wondering something, though. Peter, did you think of doing an impersonation and then decide against it?
Edited on Feb 5, 2011 at 1:21pmJul '10
Re: Robinson on "The Line"
I thought the salient point was when Peter referred to the Left believing the Reagan had a "bag of tricks" and that all they have to do is to emulate those tricks and viola, the public will love them the same way they loved Reagan.
It is so telling that they so naturally assume it was the outward, rather than the inward, that people were attracted to.
It reminds me of the Cargo Cultists beleiving the outward appearance of the technological devices will cause the U.S. Logistical supplies to return to their islands.
It wasn't outward fluff that made Reagan, it was the inward belief in what he said. He wasn't interested in "Not Offending" anyone, he was interested in saying what was real. When he took command of the Ship of State his interest was a compass course for that ship over the idea of standing on the bridge.
Obama will never achieve what Reagan achieved because his words are not tools of communication rather they are tools of manipulation. As time goes on people stop seeing themselves when they see Obama and start seeing the Salesman at the Used Car Lot downtown.
May '10
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That distinction--tools of communication vs tools of manipulation--is well put, Jaydee.
Jul '10
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Thank You for posting this, Blue Yeti. Some of Us out Here don't get FoxNews.
I get tears and chills every time I hear it. Truly wonderful.
Thank You, Peter.
Dec '10
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I never heard it, when it was said.
I experienced jubilation second hand from others that had somehow heard it. If no one was watching, some would grab me about the elbows and try to make me dance up and down.
I was more cynical, as I had seen many moments lost, but that moment was not lost. I just assumed rhetoric had been spilled and America would once more fail the people grasping my elbows.
For several years, after that speech, our country acted with resolve and integrity, or at least it seemed that we did so to me, and many others.
For me, I saw through that patina when, during a period of great influence, Reagan's successor couldn't be bothered with Haiti. No better prepared mind than Bush senior's could have faced that situation, and he just folded. A few well-placed words to General Cedras and history might have been different.
Today, might be different, in Haiti and elsewhere.
May '10
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Here's a big LIKE for this post, for Peter's workmanship on and off camera, and for The Gipper!
How vividly I remember just 2 years later when that wall came down. I remember watching history unfold on my TV in my college dorm thinking, "A-ma-zing," and sobbing along with all of the people bashing at the wall with any household implement they could find. I got to go to Berlin in '92. You could still see the vast differences in the East and West. The buildings on the East side were all dingy and in decay with bizarre communist propaganda murals. The buildings on the West side were fresher and well kept.